AUB to inaugurate Rafic Hariri School of Nursing

Speakers will include President Peter Dorman, VP Nadim Cortas, Dr Huda Huijer, director of the School of Nursing, and MP Saad Hariri, who has pledged $10m to name and endow the School of Nursing at the University.

The school will be named after his late father, Lebanon's Former Prime Minister Rafic B. Hariri, who was also an AUB trustee and a generous supporter of the University.

The gift will be used to renovate and equip the building and to endow a fund to support the directorship of the school and a faculty chair, which will be known as the Rafic Hariri Professor of Nursing. About one-third of the donation will allow the University to provide Hariri Scholarships for nursing students.

The School of Nursing, which celebrated its centennial in 2005, was the first nursing school to be established in the Middle East. In 2007, both its BSN and MSN programs received accreditation by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) in the USA for a five-year term, or the maximum term for initial accreditation. It thus became the first school of nursing to be accredited by CCNE outside the US territories.